Valeria Napoleone is a contemporary art collector who has developed a significant collection of work by women artists around the world. She is also an active supporter and patron of the arts, supporting many artists at an early stage of their careers. She is the recent author of a cookbook Catalogue of Exquisite Recipes, published by Koenig Books and the majority of profits raised from sales will be donated to Down Syndrome Education International.

Allegra Pesenti is Curator at the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She is responsible for researching and curating exhibitions of old master, modern,and contemporary works on paper. Pesenti is also involved in the acquisition of works of art for the Grunwald collection. She studied Renaissance drawing at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and has been involved in the organization of exhibitions of old master drawings at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and at the Louvre in Paris. She formerly served as Assistant Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum and at the Hammer Museum, she curated Rachel Whiteread Drawings which travelled to Tate Britain, in 2011.